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June 1940 QST
 Table of Contents
These articles are scanned and OCRed from old editions of the ARRL's
QST magazine. Here is a list of the QST articles I have already
posted. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged. |
Membership in the
American Radio Relay League
(ARRL) is currently $49.00 per year, and includes a subscription to its flagship
publication, QST. According to this postcard insert that I found in a June
1940 issue of QST, membership then was a whopping $2.50, and it also included
the magazine subscription. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' online Inflation
Calculator, $2.50 in 1940 bought you what you buy for
$51.83 in 2022 (it was
$42.59 in 2016 when this was first posted). Because of the extremely high rate
of inflation today (2022), the effective cost of ARRL membership is less today than
in 1940. To wit, $49.00 in 2022 would have been
$2.36 in 1940.
BTW, postage for mailing a
postcard in 1940 was a mere 2¢, and today is 40¢. In inflationary terms, 2¢
in 1940 bought the same as
41¢ in 2022 - nearly equivalent! The U.S. Postal Service earns an "attaboy"
for that one.
American Radio Relay League Postcard
 American Radio Relay League
38 La Salle Road
West Hartford, Conn, U.S.A.
Membership-Subscription Order Card
Please enter my A.R.R.L. membership-QST subscription for one year and send me
a bill for $2.50.* Begin with ................. issue.
Name ______________________________
Address ____________________________
___________________________________
* This order card applicable only for United States and Possessions.
Posted June 22, 2022
(updated from original post on
8/9/2016)
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